(Yue Jian [2006]136)
Chapter I General Principles
Article 1 In order to standardize and strengthen the psychological correction of criminals and improve the quality of reform, these Provisions are formulated in accordance with the Regulations of the Ministry of Justice on Prison Education Reform and relevant laws and regulations, and in light of the actual situation.
Article 2 The main task of psychological correction of prison criminals is to correct criminal psychological bad habits, eliminate psychological barriers, improve mental health, promote the ideological transformation of criminals and maintain the security and stability of prisons by means of mental health education, psychological measurement, psychological consultation and psychotherapy, and psychological crisis intervention.
Article 3 The implementation of psychological correction for criminals should adhere to the guiding ideology of giving priority to education, giving priority to prevention and combining prevention with treatment, and follow the principles of integrity, equality, objectivity, inspiration, confidentiality, non-guidance and persistence.
Article 4 A prison shall set up a psychological correction department to be responsible for psychological correction of criminals. The prison area shall be equipped with full-time psychological correction personnel, and other prison areas shall be equipped with part-time psychological counselors.
Article 5 A prison shall set up a special place for psychological correction of criminals, equipped with necessary equipment.
Article 6 A prison shall formulate guidelines for the psychological correction of criminals, clarify the basis, responsibilities, procedures, standards and accounts of the work, and improve the construction of the psychological correction system for criminals.
Article 7 Prison staff engaged in psychological correction of criminals shall meet the following conditions:
(a) to obtain the professional qualification certificate of the national psychological counselor;
(2) Have a strong sense of professionalism and a high sense of responsibility;
(3) Having good conduct and professional ethics.
Prisons can employ social professionals to participate in the psychological correction of criminals.
Article 8 A prison shall establish a system for collecting and analyzing prisoners' psychological trends, which shall be analyzed once a month in the prison area and once a quarter in the prison. The analysis should be reported step by step.
Chapter II Mental Health Education
Article 9 A prison shall provide mental health education to prisoners, publicize mental health knowledge, and enable prisoners to learn to adjust and correct their psychological problems.
The mental health education of criminals should be included in the overall planning of educational reform.
Article 10 A prison shall provide mental health education to newly admitted criminals, with no less than 16 class hours per period.
The contents of mental health education for newly-admitted criminals shall include:
(1) Basic knowledge of psychology;
(2) Mental health knowledge;
(3) Self-adjustment of common psychological problems in prisons;
(four) the correction of bad criminal psychology and the cultivation of good psychological quality; ;
(5) Guidelines for criminals seeking psychological counseling and receiving psychotherapy.
Article 11 A prison shall, according to the needs of reform work and in combination with the actual situation of criminals, conduct targeted classified mental health education for specific types of criminals and criminal groups within a certain period of time.
Article 12 A prison shall provide special mental health education to prisoners who are about to be released from prison, so as to enhance their social adaptability and psychological endurance.
Thirteenth mental health education for ordinary criminals should be no less than 30 hours a year. Female criminals and juvenile offenders should appropriately increase the content and time of education.
Article 14 A prison shall provide mental health education to prisoners through multiple channels. Special issues or columns should be published regularly, and the library, reading room and culture room in the prison area should be equipped with relevant psychological books, magazines or newspapers.
Chapter III Psychological Measurement
Article 15 A prison shall conduct psychological measurement on criminals and establish psychological files of criminals.
The contents of criminal psychological files include:
(1) Basic information of criminals;
(two) psychological test results and analysis;
(3) Criminal self-assessment and police assessment;
(4) Suggestions for regulatory reform.
Records with reference value formed in the psychological correction of criminals should be classified into criminal psychological files, and prisons with conditions should establish criminal electronic psychological files.
Sixteenth criminal psychological files should be strictly managed with reference to the relevant provisions on the management of criminal files, and should not be made public or disseminated, and should not be leaked to people who have nothing to do with supervision, education or case investigation. Publicly published or published papers and periodicals related to psychological correction of criminals shall not disclose their names, residences, photos and information that may infer criminals. After being released from prison, criminals should be treated as short-term files.
Article 17 A specific implementation plan should be formulated for psychological measurement of criminals, and the selected test scale should be standardized, with certain reliability and validity, standardized implementation methods and clear scoring standards.
Article 18 A prison shall, within 20 days after admission to prison, conduct psychological measurement on newly admitted prisoners, focusing on grasping the personality characteristics and individual mental health status of prisoners. If the comprehensive indicators or individual indicators are abnormal, other targeted psychological scales should be added for measurement.
The identified stubborn dangerous criminals should be psychologically evaluated within 15 days from the date of identification, and the evaluation results will serve as an important basis for formulating the reform plan for stubborn dangerous criminals.
Prisoners and special types of criminals should be psychologically evaluated before use, and the evaluation results should be used as the basis for their suitability.
Nineteenth psychological measurement results should be fed back to the prison department and the prison area in writing, and can be selectively fed back to the criminals themselves.
Article 20 A prison shall, on the basis of psychological measurement, combine the criminal history, life history, diseases (especially mental history) and self-evaluation of criminals, and put forward suggestions on reforming criminals, so as to provide a basis for the identification and classification of criminals, supervision and safety, etc.
Chapter IV Psychological Counseling and Treatment
Article 21 A prison shall be equipped with specialized personnel to provide psychological counseling services for prisoners and answer their psychological problems. Criminals with mental illness should receive treatment; In case of serious illness, relevant professionals should be organized for consultation and special treatment.
Article 22 A prison shall provide necessary guidance and convenience for prisoners to receive psychological counseling and treatment, and establish and improve relevant channels.
Article 23 A prisoner may apply for psychological counseling and treatment by himself or be designated by the prison police. Within 7 days after receiving the criminal's application, a psychological counselor should be arranged for consultation or interview.
Twenty-fourth prisons should provide group counseling or behavior training for criminal groups with common psychological problems; Criminals with obvious maladjustment, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobia, anxiety, depression and bad habits should be corrected by full-time psychological counselors to alleviate or eliminate their symptoms.
Criminals with psychosomatic diseases, suspected mental idiots, etc. Should be promptly referred to the prison hospital for treatment.
Article 25. For criminals suffering from mental disorder or borderline mental illness, professional doctors should be responsible for organizing and implementing drug-assisted treatment.
Twenty-sixth prisons can make full use of modern communication and computer network technology, and establish telephone consultation system and computer network consultation system in prison or remotely after examination and approval by the provincial bureau.
Chapter V Psychological Crisis Intervention
Article 27 A prison shall intervene in the psychological crisis of criminals in order to reduce or avoid personal injury accidents and incidents endangering the safety of supervision. Before implementing psychological crisis intervention, we should make a psychological crisis intervention plan for criminals in combination with the prison's own reality.
Article 20 A criminal may be considered to be in a state of psychological crisis under any of the following circumstances.
(a) there are attempts to self-harm, suicide and other self-destruction intentions;
(2) Having committed crimes, escaping and other crimes in prison;
(3) unexpected events such as major family changes have caused the prisoner's emotions to get out of control and have not improved after the ideological work of the prison police;
(4) The regulatory environment is seriously out of balance;
(5) The motivation for seeking psychological counseling is strong, and it is found to be realistic and dangerous in the process of counseling;
(six) the tendency of group psychological problems is more prominent, which may lead to group events;
(seven) in the process of handling the accident, the prison believes that the criminal is in a state of psychological crisis and needs active intervention;
(8) I am unwilling to take the initiative to seek psychological counseling for abnormal behaviors such as hyperactivity or excessive depression, extreme anxiety and nervousness caused by other specific events during my imprisonment.
Twenty-ninth psychological crisis intervention at the same time, should take other comprehensive monitoring and safety measures for the intervention object, try to avoid accidents.
Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions
Thirtieth these Provisions shall be interpreted by the provincial prison administration.
Article 31 These Provisions shall come into force as of the date of promulgation.